Sen. Tom Coburn took out his frustrations about the nation’s burgeoning debt on a Senate poster on Tuesday, cutting it with scissors and then just ripping in half.

The Oklahoma Republican, one of the Senate’s most outspoken fiscal conservatives, had a poster made to resemble a massive credit card with the nation’s debt written on it as of Tuesday morning. Coburn asked for unanimous consent at one point to bring scissors on the floor “to make a point.”

Coburn said it’s time for the country to cut up America’s credit card, comparing Congress to children running up a sky-high tally on their parent’s MasterCard.

“If they are not responsible, you cut up the credit card. You fix the real problem,” Coburn said.

And then he demonstrated just what he meant.

“What we should do is we should cut this credit card up, what is what I’m going to do because that’s the way I vote. I think it’s time we quit borrowing money,” Coburn said as he tried to cut the poster with a pair of scissors.

Encountering more resistance than he had bargained for, Coburn called an audible and used his hands to rip apart the poster. “Actually, I think I’ll just tear it up.”

The Senate is expected to consider a measure to raise the debt ceiling through the 2014 midterm elections later this week. Coburn can be put down as a no vote.